Sotiropoulos Eliminated

Down to 6.7 million, Georgios Sotiropoulos jammed over an open from Dzmitry Urbanovich. The latter called holding [AsAh] with Sotiropoulos showing [JsTs]. The flop of [Qd8s7c] gave Sotiropoulos some outs but the [5s] on the turn and [Jc] on the river weren't cards he was looking for. Down to sixteen players now,

Sotiropoulos Doubles Through Mathis

Georgios Sotiropoulos just doubled through Marty Mathis. Sotiropoulos had [qsqc] and Mathis played [ksqd] when the board ran out [8d3h2htd7s]. Sotiropoulos is now up to about 8,000,000 while Mathis dropped to 6,300,000. The defending champion still has 21 big blinds but he has his work cut out for him.